[OSM-newbies] using the Overpass API

[Andrew Salzberg]

Hi all,

thanks for the responses. I'm actually using bash on my mac here (should've
said that originally), so working with curl (should i be?)

I'm definitely communicating with overpass - thanks for the
http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter - but can't seem to send a script
succesfully.

Even the simple sample taken directly from the tutorial page

curl --request GET "http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=node[name=\
"Gielgen\"];out;"

yields:

curl: (3) [globbing] error: bad range specification after pos 50

but i'm acutally more interested in sending a file then storing the output
(as your examples through wget do)

Andrew



On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> wget  -O "PT.osm" --post-file="PT.overpass" "
> http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"
>
> should do the trick. I used it on Windows, so maybe the parameters for
> wget are different on Linux, not sure.
>
>
> Jo
>
> 2013/5/17 Andrew Salzberg <andrew.salzberg at gmail.com>
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> just trying out the overpass API - very happily able to build scripts
>> here in overpass turbo that run great (http://overpass-turbo.eu/) but
>> wanted to take the next step and a) write a script in text file and b) send
>> a request via bash so that ultimately I can write a script to loop this for
>> a few cases.
>>
>> I'm basically an API newb (not just an OSM API newb) so I'm able to do
>> things like write a GET request but I'm not sure what the actual address I
>> should be putting in my request to overpass is? Try as I might I can't find
>> it in here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API I have
>> working .txt file with an <osm_script> in it that I'd like to send via bash
>> to overpass... if that makes sense.
>>
>> any help much appreciated.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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